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* TemptingFate: On the April 8th, 2019 RAW, Elias declared that the next man who interrupted was a dead man. [[ExactWords Cue]] Wrestling/TheUndertaker.
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** Don't ever compare him to Wrestling/JeffJarrett. Or be Jeff Jarrett, for that matter. Double J [[CurbStompBattle found out the hard way]] when he tried to do a duet with him at the 2019 Royal Rumble.
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** Don't ever compare him to Wrestling/JeffJarrett. Or be Jeff Jarrett, for that matter. Double J [[CurbStompBattle found out the hard way]] when he not only interrupted Elias ''just as he was about to start to sing'' but also tried to do a duet with him at the 2019 Royal Rumble.
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** Don't ever compare him to Wrestling/JeffJarrett. Or be Jeff Jarrett. Jeff Jarrett Jarrett, for that matter. Double J [[CurbStompBattle found out the hard way]] when he tried to do a duet with him at the 2019 Royal Rumble.
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* TheStoic: Not particularly expressive unless he's either singing and playing his guitar or beating on an opponent.
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* TheStoic: Not particularly expressive unless he's either singing and playing his guitar or beating on an opponent. Not much can get a rise out of him period, as when an irate Wrestling/BraunStrowman came up behind him upon overhearing him revealing that he saw where Wrestling/BaronCorbin went, he changed his song around to rat out Corbin's hiding place without even missing a beat.
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* {{Tweener}}: Elias's morality appears to be proportionate to people's willingness to get behind him and let him finish his songs. He pulls a HeelFaceTurn when the crowd is going wild for him, and switches back when he's convinced that they've turned on him. Any attempts to interrupt him when he's trying to cut a promo will invariably end in either a match or guitar smash, regardless of who's doing it.
* UnexpectedCharacter:[[invoked]] His jump to the main roster came out of nowhere and was not preceded by any sort of push or high-profile feud on NXT.
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* {{Tweener}}: Elias's morality appears to be proportionate to people's willingness to get behind him and let him finish his songs. He pulls a HeelFaceTurn when the crowd is going wild for him, and switches back when he's convinced that they've turned on him. Any attempts to interrupt him when he's trying to cut a promo will invariably end in either a match or guitar smash, regardless of who's doing it.
it. True to his status a Drifter, he's far more independent with his endeavors, very rarely getting into any tag matches or interferences.
* UnexpectedCharacter:[[invoked]] His jump to the main roster came out of nowhere and was not preceded by any sort of push or high-profile feud onNXT.NXT.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The whole chain of events that resulted in [[Wrestling/FergalDevitt Finn Balor]] challenging Wrestling/BrockLesnar at ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble'' instead of Strowman, and Strowman in turn replacing Wrestling/JohnCena in the Rumble match itself, was set off by Elias ratting Baron Corbin out to Strowman in an earlier show, who turned out to have hidden in the limo of ''Wrestling/VinceMcMahon''.
* UnexpectedCharacter:[[invoked]] His jump to the main roster came out of nowhere and was not preceded by any sort of push or high-profile feud on
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The whole chain of events that resulted in [[Wrestling/FergalDevitt Finn Balor]] challenging Wrestling/BrockLesnar at ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble'' instead of Strowman, and Strowman in turn replacing Wrestling/JohnCena in the Rumble match itself, was set off by Elias ratting Baron Corbin out to Strowman in an earlier show, who turned out to have hidden in the limo of ''Wrestling/VinceMcMahon''.
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* BerserkButton: Don't ever compare him to Wrestling/JeffJarrett. Or be Jeff Jarrett. Jeff Jarrett [[CurbStompBattle found out the hard way]] when he tried to do a duet with him at the 2019 Royal Rumble.
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** Never interrupt him when he's trying to sing.
** Don't ever compare him to Wrestling/JeffJarrett. Or be Jeff Jarrett. Jeff Jarrett [[CurbStompBattle found out the hard way]] when he tried to do a duet with him at the 2019 Royal
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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: He was only a face for barely three months before turning heel again.
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* FaceHeelTurn: After Wrestling/RoyalRumble (2019) Elias turned heel again after insulting the crowd, proclaiming that they dissapointed him for lackluster reactions towards him, and was subsequently interrupt by Jarrett and Wrestling/RoadDogg, who proceeded to sing With My Baby Tonight until Elias attacked both men with guitar.
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* BerserkButton: Don't ever compare him to Wrestling/JeffJerrett. Or be Jeff Jerrett. Jeff Jerrett [[CurbStompBattle found out the hard way]] when he tried to do a duet with him at the 2019 Royal Rumble.
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* BerserkButton: Don't ever compare him to Wrestling/JeffJerrett. Wrestling/JeffJarrett. Or be Jeff Jerrett. Jarrett. Jeff Jerrett Jarrett [[CurbStompBattle found out the hard way]] when he tried to do a duet with him at the 2019 Royal Rumble.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[FunWithAcronyms Walk. With. Elias]].]]
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* BadassBeard: As a face.
* BeardOfEvil: As a heel.
* BeardOfEvil: As a heel.
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** "Silence your cell phones, hold your applause, and shut your mouths."
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** "Silence your cell phones, hold your applause, and shut your mouths."" He began omitting the "shut your mouths" part after his HeelFaceTurn.
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* CharlieBrownFromOuttaTown: After being fired from NXT, he came back the following week under a mask as El Vagabundo -- the Spanish translation of his usual RedBaron. Other than the mask, he was wearing the same outfit and even carrying the same guitar around as usual. Oney Lorcan ripped his mask off mid-match before defeating him, and he was promptly ejected from the arena after the bell.
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* CharlieBrownFromOuttaTown: After being fired from NXT, he came back the following week under a mask as El Vagabundo -- the Spanish translation of his usual RedBaron. Other than the mask, he was wearing the same outfit and even carrying the same guitar around as usual. Oney Lorcan ripped his mask off mid-match before defeating him, and he was promptly ejected from the arena after the bell.
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* CharlieBrownFromOuttaTown: After being fired from NXT, he came back the following week under a mask as El Vagabundo -- the Spanish translation of his usual RedBaron. Other than the mask, he was wearing the same outfit and even carrying the same guitar around as usual. Oney Lorcan ripped his mask off mid-match before defeating him, and he was promptly ejected from the arena after the bell.
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After the spending early years of his career wrestling in various independant promotions, he was signed to WWE's Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} brand as '''Elias Samson''', where he made his television debut on April 24, 2014. In April of 2017, he was called up to the main roster, where he now competes on the Wrestling/{{WWERaw}} brand.
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After the spending early years of his career wrestling in various independant promotions, he was signed to WWE's Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] brand as '''Elias Samson''', where he made his television debut on April 24, 2014. In April of 2017, he was called up to the main roster, where he now competes on the Wrestling/{{WWERaw}} [[Wrestling/WWERaw RAW]] brand.
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After the spending early years of his career wrestling in various independant promotions, he was signed to WWE's Wrestling/{{NXT}} brand as '''Elias Samson''', where he made his television debut on April 24, 2014. In April of 2017, he was called up to the main roster, where he now competes on the Wrestling/{{RAW}} brand.
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After the spending early years of his career wrestling in various independant promotions, he was signed to WWE's Wrestling/{{NXT}} Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} brand as '''Elias Samson''', where he made his television debut on April 24, 2014. In April of 2017, he was called up to the main roster, where he now competes on the Wrestling/{{RAW}} Wrestling/{{WWERaw}} brand.
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After the spending early years of his career wrestling in various independant promotions, he was signed to WWE's Wrestling/NXT brand as '''Elias Samson''', where he made his television debut on April 24, 2014. In April of 2017, he was called up to the main roster, where he now competes on the Wrestling/RAW brand.
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After the spending early years of his career wrestling in various independant promotions, he was signed to WWE's Wrestling/NXT Wrestling/{{NXT}} brand as '''Elias Samson''', where he made his television debut on April 24, 2014. In April of 2017, he was called up to the main roster, where he now competes on the Wrestling/RAW Wrestling/{{RAW}} brand.
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'''Jeffrey Sciullo''' (born November 20, 1987) is an American professional wrestler and musician currently signed to the Wrestling/{{WWE}}, where he performs under the ring name Elias.
After the spending early years of his career wrestling in various independant promotions, he was signed to WWE's Wrestling/NXT brand as '''Elias Samson''', where he made his television debut on April 24, 2014. In April of 2017, he was called up to the main roster, where he now competes on the Wrestling/RAW brand.
After the spending early years of his career wrestling in various independant promotions, he was signed to WWE's Wrestling/NXT brand as '''Elias Samson''', where he made his television debut on April 24, 2014. In April of 2017, he was called up to the main roster, where he now competes on the Wrestling/RAW brand.
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* AscendedExtra: Was a former [[Wrestling/AdamRose rosebud]].
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''I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was in my own world there, while [[Wrestling/BaronCorbin you]] were rambling and sucking the entertainment out of the building I was writing a song in my head that I'm going to sing right now, so if you could just silence your cell phone, hold your applause until after I'm finished, and most importantly do me a favor and shut your damn mouth!''
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''I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was in my own world there, while [[Wrestling/BaronCorbin you]] were rambling and sucking the entertainment out of the building I was writing a song in my head that I'm going to sing right now, so if you could just silence your cell phone, hold your applause until after I'm finished, and most importantly do me a favor and shut your damn mouth!''
* AntiHero: Even as a face, Elias is still rude to other wrestlers and isn't above messing with Wrestling/BaronCorbin when he's not even pulling anything on him.
* BreakoutCharacter: Was brought up to Raw for little reason other than jobbing. The gimmick [[IncrediblyLamePun struck a chord]] with crowds and by early 2018 he become one of the most over stars on the brand leading to a feud with Wrestling/BraunStrowman who enjoyed a similar rise in popularity around the same time.
* BullyingADragon: The drawback of being a lone drifter is that you have no friends to give you advice when you're about to do something incredibly stupid - like smash a guitar over the neck of '''[[Wrestling/BraunStrowman BRAUN FREAKING STROWMAN.]]''' Predictably, Braun was not happy about this, and he responded the next week by beating the hell out of Elias, dragging him up the ramp, and then returning the favor with a ''double bass.'' You know, the giant stringed instrument that's taller than most grown men.
** Becomes the dragon later on, when Wrestling/BaronCorbin tries to shoo him off the stage when he's trying to cut a promo, going far enough to cut his mic. Elias, understandably annoyed, responds by smashing his guitar into Corbin's back.
* CatchPhrase: "Who wants to walk with the Drifter[=/=]Elias?"
** "WWE stands for [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Walk. With. Elias.]]"
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He's not entirely there, given that he was coming up with lyrics in his head while Wrestling/BaronCorbin was trying to get him to leave the stage. At that point he outright admitted that he was lost in his own world for a moment.
* CurseCutShort: Wrestling/BaronCorbin cuts off his mic just in time to get past the censors.
-->'''Elias:''' But now you're just a giant puppet with Stephanie's hand up your a-
-->'''Corbin:''' Cut it!
* DeadpanSnarker: He's not without his witty moments.
-->'''Wrestling/BaronCorbin:''' And I was talking to Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon, the commissioner of Mo-
-->'''Elias:''' [[CaptainObvious I know who Stephanie [=McMahon=] is]].
* TheDrifter: It's his entire gimmick, even down to being his RedBaron.
* FinishingMove: The Drift Away, a fisherman neckbreaker.
* FunWithAcronyms: If you ask him, WWE stands for "Walk With Elias."
* HeelFaceTurn: On the October 22, 2018 edition of Raw, Elias turned face after attacking Wrestling/BaronCorbin from behind, who had previously told him to stop playing his song.
* IAmSong: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6ZdbJhhpqg this video]], he sings about the NXT title history and ends it by singing on how he will be the next champion.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Will not hesitate to El Kabong you - that is, smash his acoustic guitar over your back.
* {{Irony}}: The post-Takeover episode in Brooklyn had Bull Dempsey completing his repackaging by beating Samson in his new gimmick's infancy. Four months later, the post-Takeover episode in London had Samson completing his repackaging by decisively toppling Dempsey.
* LargeHam: When he has his guitar and the spotlight on him, Elias milks his screentime for all its worth.
* OnlyOneName: The 'Samson' was dropped at some point in 2017.
* RunningGag: Has he gotten through a full song in a promo without getting interrupted by someone else's entrance music ''at any point'' since he started this gimmick?
* SitcomArchnemesis: He is one to Corey Graves, who isn't happy that Samson is from Pittsburgh as well.
* TheStoic: Not particularly expressive unless he's either singing and playing his guitar or beating on an opponent.
* TookALevelInBadass: Was initially still a {{jobber}} in the Drifter gimmick's early stages.
** On the main roster, he goes from jobbing to Wrestling/JasonJordan on Pay-Per-View to pinning former WWE Champion Wrestling/JinderMahal clean on live TV.
* {{Troll}}: His CatchPhrase is... well, catchy, which has given him something of an EnsembleDarkhorse status. He often pops the crowd with his catch phrases much like a face would, before immediately going into one of his songs, which are not only annoying, but typically have lyrics cutting down the crowd, city, and[=/=]or home sports team(s) du jour. As of May 2018, this effort at cheap heat has started to fail; he's gained enough popularity with the crowd that ''he still gets cheered for calling them idiots''. Finally led to a HeelFaceTurn in October, which included redirecting one catch phrase pretty much verbatim toward Wrestling/BaronCorbin:
--> "...so if you could just silence your cell phone, hold your applause until after I'm finished, and most importantly, do me a favor and shut your damn mouth!''"
* UnexpectedCharacter:[[invoked]] His jump to the main roster came out of nowhere and was not preceded by any sort of push or high-profile feud on NXT.
''I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was in my own world there, while [[Wrestling/BaronCorbin you]] were rambling and sucking the entertainment out of the building I was writing a song in my head that I'm going to sing right now, so if you could just silence your cell phone, hold your applause until after I'm finished, and most importantly do me a favor and shut your damn mouth!''
* AntiHero: Even as a face, Elias is still rude to other wrestlers and isn't above messing with Wrestling/BaronCorbin when he's not even pulling anything on him.
* BreakoutCharacter: Was brought up to Raw for little reason other than jobbing. The gimmick [[IncrediblyLamePun struck a chord]] with crowds and by early 2018 he become one of the most over stars on the brand leading to a feud with Wrestling/BraunStrowman who enjoyed a similar rise in popularity around the same time.
* BullyingADragon: The drawback of being a lone drifter is that you have no friends to give you advice when you're about to do something incredibly stupid - like smash a guitar over the neck of '''[[Wrestling/BraunStrowman BRAUN FREAKING STROWMAN.]]''' Predictably, Braun was not happy about this, and he responded the next week by beating the hell out of Elias, dragging him up the ramp, and then returning the favor with a ''double bass.'' You know, the giant stringed instrument that's taller than most grown men.
** Becomes the dragon later on, when Wrestling/BaronCorbin tries to shoo him off the stage when he's trying to cut a promo, going far enough to cut his mic. Elias, understandably annoyed, responds by smashing his guitar into Corbin's back.
* CatchPhrase: "Who wants to walk with the Drifter[=/=]Elias?"
** "WWE stands for [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Walk. With. Elias.]]"
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He's not entirely there, given that he was coming up with lyrics in his head while Wrestling/BaronCorbin was trying to get him to leave the stage. At that point he outright admitted that he was lost in his own world for a moment.
* CurseCutShort: Wrestling/BaronCorbin cuts off his mic just in time to get past the censors.
-->'''Elias:''' But now you're just a giant puppet with Stephanie's hand up your a-
-->'''Corbin:''' Cut it!
* DeadpanSnarker: He's not without his witty moments.
-->'''Wrestling/BaronCorbin:''' And I was talking to Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon, the commissioner of Mo-
-->'''Elias:''' [[CaptainObvious I know who Stephanie [=McMahon=] is]].
* TheDrifter: It's his entire gimmick, even down to being his RedBaron.
* FinishingMove: The Drift Away, a fisherman neckbreaker.
* FunWithAcronyms: If you ask him, WWE stands for "Walk With Elias."
* HeelFaceTurn: On the October 22, 2018 edition of Raw, Elias turned face after attacking Wrestling/BaronCorbin from behind, who had previously told him to stop playing his song.
* IAmSong: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6ZdbJhhpqg this video]], he sings about the NXT title history and ends it by singing on how he will be the next champion.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Will not hesitate to El Kabong you - that is, smash his acoustic guitar over your back.
* {{Irony}}: The post-Takeover episode in Brooklyn had Bull Dempsey completing his repackaging by beating Samson in his new gimmick's infancy. Four months later, the post-Takeover episode in London had Samson completing his repackaging by decisively toppling Dempsey.
* LargeHam: When he has his guitar and the spotlight on him, Elias milks his screentime for all its worth.
* OnlyOneName: The 'Samson' was dropped at some point in 2017.
* RunningGag: Has he gotten through a full song in a promo without getting interrupted by someone else's entrance music ''at any point'' since he started this gimmick?
* SitcomArchnemesis: He is one to Corey Graves, who isn't happy that Samson is from Pittsburgh as well.
* TheStoic: Not particularly expressive unless he's either singing and playing his guitar or beating on an opponent.
* TookALevelInBadass: Was initially still a {{jobber}} in the Drifter gimmick's early stages.
** On the main roster, he goes from jobbing to Wrestling/JasonJordan on Pay-Per-View to pinning former WWE Champion Wrestling/JinderMahal clean on live TV.
* {{Troll}}: His CatchPhrase is... well, catchy, which has given him something of an EnsembleDarkhorse status. He often pops the crowd with his catch phrases much like a face would, before immediately going into one of his songs, which are not only annoying, but typically have lyrics cutting down the crowd, city, and[=/=]or home sports team(s) du jour. As of May 2018, this effort at cheap heat has started to fail; he's gained enough popularity with the crowd that ''he still gets cheered for calling them idiots''. Finally led to a HeelFaceTurn in October, which included redirecting one catch phrase pretty much verbatim toward Wrestling/BaronCorbin:
--> "...so if you could just silence your cell phone, hold your applause until after I'm finished, and most importantly, do me a favor and shut your damn mouth!''"
* UnexpectedCharacter:[[invoked]] His jump to the main roster came out of nowhere and was not preceded by any sort of push or high-profile feud on NXT.
